In honor of Presidents’ Day next week, I’m going to share several posts on Abraham Lincoln this week. 1: Eleven days after the Union victory…
1: Diane Button had been living in Nashville for only a year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “Whether it was divine providence or…
1: Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich prides himself on being a contrarian. “If everyone is in favor of something, I’m probably headed in the opposite…
Ron Shaich, the influential founder and longtime CEO of Panera Bread, earned a reputation for his impactful talks that shaped the company’s direction. “While every…
1: As CEO of Panera Bread, Ron Shaich would sometimes walk around the conference room table and stand behind one of his executives. “Placing my…
1: Panera founder and CEO Ron Shaich looked out over Boston’s beautiful public gardens. He was having breakfast with his friend Bill Allen, who had…
1: Bo had Parkinson’s disease. He was sixty-one years old. “He lived alone for two decades until he needed extra care, and moved back to…
1: “Our bread wasn’t good enough,” Ron Shaich writes in Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations. This was a real issue for Ron…
1: There are two traps CEOs and leadership teams fall into regarding innovation. Trap #1: “The minute we think we truly understand the customer and…
1: “Top-down innovation gets a bad rap,” Panera founder Ron Shaich writes in his terrific book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.…